LIA needs host families for Chinese orphans this summer

We are very excited to announce that Love In Action will work with the city of Dothan and the SoZo Group to bring 20 students from inner Mongolia, China, to Dothan this summer. The students will be teenagers and most are orphans and the others are from extremely poor families.

Inner Mongolia is in north China near the Russian border.

We will be working with the Earthpulse Foundation in Hong Kong to coordinate these efforts. Earthpulse will bring the students to Dothan and Love In Action will find qualified host families. If you are interested in being a host family for six weeks this summer (July-mid August), please email us at loveinactionministries@hotmail.com

This is an awesome opportunity to speak into the lives of orphans and show these youth our community. They aren't coming on vacation, however. Earthpulse wants them to do social work, so Love In Action will fill that need as well.

We are extremely excited about our first opportunity to work in China. This is an answer to prayer. Before I accepted a job that would put me in Hong Kong and mainland China a number of times each year, Martha and I prayed about it. We both felt God was providing this opportunity as an open door to minister in China. God validated that tonight as we discussed plans at dinner in Hong Kong with Earthpulse founder and chairman Hing Chao.

Chao said he wants the students to be part of the community during their stay in Dothan.
"I don’t want the students to go and play," he said. "I want them to engage with the community and to do some social service work. We want them to give something back.  That’s something that’s lacking with young people."

Much more information will be forthcoming soon, but the time frame will be from the beginning of July to no later than the third week of August.

Please pray about being part of this awesome opportunity to work with these orphans. We will go through an application process that will include background checks. We want the best homes for these children, so their time in Dothan will be safe and fulfilling.

Please email us at the above address if you would like to apply to be a host family.

Please pray for everyone involved in putting this together, and go ahead and start praying for the students who will be coming to Dothan from China.

Thanks and God bless.